Tag Archives: Bahamas

The LEAST Efficient form of Travel…

Posted on February 19, 2024 by Bill Kinney

And no, it is NOT sailing!!! We just completed a delivery sail bringing a Hylas 54 sailboat from Charleston, SC down to Cape Eleuthera Marina in the Bahamas, which is where we started the trip, and where we left Harmonie … Continue reading →

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Well, That’s over With!

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Bill Kinney

We have been hunkered down in the protection of Rock Sound at the south end of Eleuthera for the last several days while a series of weather systems blew through one after another. This is an image from our anchor … Continue reading →

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Great Inagua Island

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Bill Kinney

450 miles southeast of Miami, just 45 miles from the eastern-most tip of Cuba is the most southern of the islands of the Bahamas, Great Inagua. It is the place we checked in first with Customs and Immigration to get … Continue reading →

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In–and Out–of San Salvador

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Bill Kinney

San Salvador is generally considered to be the island where Columbus first landed in the New World, although there is a never ending dispute about it. It rises with sheer walls out of the deep ocean, the dropoff to water … Continue reading →

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Enough of this Goofing Off…

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Time to get to work. The next destination for us is a place we have been before, the island of Culibra. Politically, it is part of Puerto Rico (and hence, the USA), geographically it is one of the “Spanish Virgin … Continue reading →

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Lucky? or Good?

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Yesterday morning we left Bimini and started sailing in conditions that really could only be called “idyllic.” Winds were light, but more than enough to keep the boat moving at 5 knots. Sunny. Calm seas. Perfect temperatures. Pretty much reminding … Continue reading →

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The Island in the Stream

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Bill Kinney

We are now fully, and officially, out cruising again. We checked into the Alicetown on Bimini, Bahamas yesterday, uneventfully. We now have a 90 day cruising permit for the country of the Bahamas, and are working on more specific plans … Continue reading →

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The Paper Chase

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Bill Kinney

The Bahamas has instituted a relatively new online check-in procedure. You enter all the data they need, make payments, pretty much everything except get the final approval stamps which we still have to do in person. After we got the … Continue reading →

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More Interesting Bits from the Out Islands.

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Bill Kinney

The people we met on West Plana who were there making their living harvesting cascarilla bark had a lot of interesting things to teach us. These are the kinds of people you only meet if you travel the way we … Continue reading →

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